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• Posted in thread: Brewing inside on 02-07-2013 at 08:40 PM
  dont use propane in the house please. for safety, sanity- everything. If you get a huge rolling
  overboil after your first hop addition- and you go to kill the heat- while getting splatted
  with boiling...

• Posted in thread: cold crashing on 02-07-2013 at 08:30 PM
  I have an Citra Ale that I dry hopped 5 days ago. I was planning on just bottling in a few
  days- but I just got this brand new frigidare 7CU chest freezer. I havnt played with the
  controls at all- but...

• Posted in thread: My new goal- $10.00 to make 5 gallons on 01-24-2013 at 08:07 PM
  buy grains and hops- make a beer- mash / sparge / collect- but instead of tossing the grains-
  do a secondary mash and sparge- and make a less than stellar batch- but I will bet it will cost
  less than ...

• Posted in thread: Bottling Question. on 01-16-2013 at 05:11 PM
  Im still drinking my Dead Ringer from last July.... it is about polished off. I keep it in a
  closet in beer boxes- (pantry) with ambient 65ish at this time.

• Posted in thread: Very fast fermentation.. on 01-14-2013 at 07:16 PM
  wait 3-4 weeks- dont rack to secondary- call us back in 7 weeks after you pop the first one and
  say... ah - it taste LIKE BEER

• Posted in thread: New to mashing on 01-14-2013 at 07:04 PM
  I dont mean to step in and blow yer mind- but the hardest thing I have yet to figure out is
  keeping my Hot Lauder Water- at 170ish degrees long enough to keep sparging for the 30 minutes
  it takes to c...

• Posted in thread: Yeast Temperature / Outdoor Fermenting on 01-05-2013 at 01:39 AM
  Update:I took the carboy out of the shed - and did a grav reading. OG was 1.056Current is 1.041
  The look is nice (although some shaking occurred, swirling etc last night- and via transport
  today. Tast...

• Posted in thread: Yeast Temperature / Outdoor Fermenting on 01-04-2013 at 02:31 AM
  I am confident that the temperature is 44 on the carboy - with a possible higher temp in the
  core. I took the carboy out of the chamber and put it on the table in the shed- and by my
  moving it- shakin...

• Posted in thread: Yeast Temperature / Outdoor Fermenting on 01-02-2013 at 06:33 PM
  GuysHappy New Year. I made a Lager on 12/24 outdoors- I live in NY. Its COLD right now- below
  freezingI have this shed /shack outside- its weathered- and beaten up- but is warmer than the
  outside- I c...

• Posted in thread: Attempted Outdoor Lagering on 12-27-2012 at 02:33 PM
  Been awhile since I posted- I have a few things I came across- wanted to hear some feedbackI
  wanted to start utilizing the outdoor temps for making beer.. specifically lagering. I never
  made one- so I...